“The more musicians there are, the crazier there are!”
The French piano virtuoso and composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) is best known for his magnificent piano pieces, including Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all his works today.
Everyone knows Satie’s showpiece, the simple yet haunting Gymnopédie No. 1, and it was Erik Satie’s unique style that influenced such artists as John Cage and was also considered the birth of “minimalism”. Satie himself described his music as “furnishing music”, which should not stress the listener unnecessarily (with the exception of his “Vexations”), and he was a role model for the modern Easy Listening artists like Ludovico Einaudi.
Friendships with Claude Debussy and Pablo Picasso, who designed the costumes, sets and curtain for his ballet Parade, established him as an important figure of the Parisian avant-garde. Although he did not enjoy the same fame as Claude Debussy, he had his own following, and was considered a mentor by the composer group “Les Six”, which comprised of Georges Auric , Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre.
His unusual and extravagant performance instructions, such as “like a nightingale with a toothache”, “serious and heavy, sullen and scratchy, hypocritical, May 15th, sober in the morning” or the instruction to repeat his “vexations” 840 times, are a little insight into genius, and the madness of Erik Satie.
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299785
for: Tuba, guitar
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for: Tuba (E-flat), guitar
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for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
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for: Piccolo, guitar
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for: Oboe, piano [organ]
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for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
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for: Cello, guitar
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for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
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for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
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for: Horn (E-flat), guitar
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for: Bass trombone, guitar
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Item no.: 1299778
for: Violin, guitar
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Item no.: 1299774
for: Double bass, guitar
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Item no.: 1299768
for: Bassoon, guitar
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Item no.: 1299806
for: Tenor recorder, guitar
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Item no.: 1299800
for: Alto saxophone, guitar
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Item no.: 1299794
for: Euphonium, guitar
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Item no.: 1299766
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299797
for: Alto trombone, guitar
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Item no.: 1299782
for: Violin, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299775
for: Viola, guitar
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Item no.: 1299772
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299769
for: Trumpet, guitar
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Item no.: 1299788
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299783
for: Flute, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299815
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, guitar
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Item no.: 1299804
for: Tuba (B flat), guitar
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Item no.: 1299762
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299805
for: Tenor recorder, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299801
for: Horn (F), guitar
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Item no.: 1299786
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299779
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299777
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299767
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299765
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299809
for: Bass recorder, guitar
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Item no.: 1299798
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299791
for: Trombone, guitar
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Item no.: 1299780
for: bass clarinet, guitar
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Item no.: 1299808
for: Treble recorder, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299803
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299793
for: Viola, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299773
for: Oboe, guitar
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Item no.: 1299812
for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299799
for: Baritone saxophone, guitar
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Item no.: 1299790
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
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Item no.: 1299787
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1299817